Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

Thanks to a collaboration with ExtremeSpaceAdventures.com we send a GoPro Hero4 Black and a GoPro Session up into the Stratosphere! We really put the adventure into Photog Adventures when the Balloon and its payload housing our GoPros falls off the GPS radar at 10,000 feet up! Brendon and Aaron spend the next three weekends hunting the Mud Flats west of the Great Salt Lake for their GoPros.

Our first Astrophotography trip to Zion National Park and we loved it! Already an amazing place in the day, it is fantastic at night! Following Jim Harmer's blog post "Photographer's Guide to Zion National Park" Brendon and Aaron make the most of their September weekend in Utah's best location, Zion National Park. Brendon and Aaron talk about all the locations they were able to visit and their success with Star Trails in Hoodoo City.

We hike two-hours up Dry Canyon trail looking for a location to capture the beautiful changing fall colors of the mountains of Utah Valley. Brendon and Aaron discuss the challenges of finding your great composition when overwhelmed with good options. Aaron gushes over the ease of using an L-bracket and why it's speed is quite critical when the light is changing and Brendon shares details on his Manfrotto Gearhead and why he prefers a gearhead over a ballhead tripod mount.

Brendon and Aaron get in two Astrophotography nights in a row at two completely different locations. Goosenecks State Park and Goblin Valley in Utah back in June. We discuss the challenges we faced capturing the large landscape of the Goosenecks compared to the intimate, in-your-face foreground of Goblin Valley. NOTE: Apologies for this podcast being a week late. There was a funeral in Canada that delayed things. But we are still on track for this week and will be releasing this week's podcast on schedule.

In order to capture the Perseid Meteor Shower in an epic location with good weather, Brendon and Aaron travel down to Bryce Canyon National Park.

Aaron and Brendon capture a reflected Milky Way out at Mirror Lake & get a surprise hangout with a well-known photographer and author, Royce Bair.

After work, Brendon and Aaron go out on a last minute Photog Adventure where we travel to an overlook of the Salt Lake Valley. Brendon had found this location a few weeks earlier and we decided it would make an awesome spot for a sunset that evening since a rain storm had just been through. The clouds were great at sunset but it got even better when we decided to stick around and capture light trails from the passing traffic.

Out to the Knolls in the Salt Flats where we capture the awesome full arch of the Milky Way and discuss how crucial it is to capture before Astronomical Dawn.

The birth of Photog Adventures! Brendon Porter and Aaron King have committed to getting out in 2016 to build their landscape and astrophotography portfolios. Come along as they chronicle their adventures travelling around Utah and the surrounding areas. In this first podcast, we talk about Brendon's first ever capture of the Milky Way and our first adventure out when we traveled to Strawberry Reservoir in Utah at 1am so we could capture the early year Milky Way rising at 2:30am. Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkJafQa58CgbQqgqfmLHwg Our Website: http://www.photogadventures.com/

Scouting locations with Google Earth, Aaron comes across an abandoned Train Trestle that looked perfectly aligned for Milky Way shots. Brendon and Aaron get out there on May 4th and discover one of their favorite nearby locations for capturing a beautiful Milky Way Nightscape!